Peppercorn Katie, Edgar Christina D, Al Momani Suzan, Rodger Euan J, Tate Warren P, Chatterjee Aniruddha
Department of Biochemistry, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Methods Mol Biol. 2025;2920:141-160. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4498-0_9.
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is a post-viral/stressor syndrome that has a complex pathophysiology reflecting multiple changes in many cell transcripts and proteins. These changes imply a change in the regulation of gene expression at the level of the DNA. A significant contributor to this is the modulation of the methylation at specific sites within regulatory regions throughout the genome that can either enhance or dampen expression depending on whether methylation is reduced or increased, respectively. DNA methylation can be analyzed by array technology or by reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS) or whole genome bisulfite sequencing (WGBS). This chapter describes RRBS, which has been very effective at analyzing the methylation states of ME/CFS patients both in single time point studies and in longitudinal studies with individual patients, for example, following a relapse recovery cycle. Here, we describe the step-by-step experimental methodology of how RRBS has been applied to DNA samples from ME/CFS patients and the analytical platforms used to detect the methylation changes that are statistically significant between patients and health controls. It has the potential to provide molecular biomarkers for a diagnostic test or to follow the progression of the condition in patients or through relapse/recovery fluctuations that occur frequently through the ongoing course of the disease. When effective therapies become available it has the potential to monitor the effectiveness on individual patients under treatment.
肌痛性脑脊髓炎/慢性疲劳综合征是一种病毒感染后/应激源综合征,其病理生理过程复杂,反映了许多细胞转录本和蛋白质的多种变化。这些变化意味着在DNA水平上基因表达调控的改变。造成这种情况的一个重要因素是基因组调控区域内特定位点的甲基化调节,根据甲基化是减少还是增加,甲基化可以分别增强或抑制基因表达。DNA甲基化可以通过芯片技术、简化代表性亚硫酸氢盐测序(RRBS)或全基因组亚硫酸氢盐测序(WGBS)进行分析。本章介绍RRBS,它在单次时间点研究和针对个体患者的纵向研究(例如在复发-恢复周期后)中,对于分析ME/CFS患者的甲基化状态非常有效。在这里,我们描述了RRBS应用于ME/CFS患者DNA样本的逐步实验方法,以及用于检测患者与健康对照之间具有统计学意义的甲基化变化的分析平台。它有可能为诊断测试提供分子生物标志物,或跟踪患者病情的进展,或跟踪疾病持续过程中频繁出现的复发/恢复波动情况。当有效的治疗方法可用时,它有可能监测个体患者在治疗中的疗效。
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